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Chronicles of Terror: Silent Screams ReviewHistory tells us that the authentic "horror" movie was born at Universal Studios in 1931. This may be true. But Steve Haberman's exceptional "Chronicles of Terror" finds ample ground-work for "horror" and "terror" films far back in the silent past.Rummaging through dusty vaults and darkened shelves, he explores Edison's original "Frankenstein(1910)", Germany's "Golem", "Caligari" and "Waxworks", and disects the great Chaney and Browning assembling gruesome tear-jerkers at Universal and MGM. An historian's delight, this thin tome uncovers more amazing facts and tantalizing tid-bits than Forrest J. Ackerman could ever imagine.Chronicles of Terror: Silent Screams OverviewBy the end of the 1920s, sound in films was firmly established as a commercial necessity. With the death of Lon Chaney in 1930, America's foremost apostle of the weird and morbid in cinema was gone. In Germany, financial collapse and frightening political upheavals drove filmmakers to abandon the supernatural for the grim realities of modern life.But the silent era had introduced most of the major themes of the horror film that would be revisited and explored for the remainder of the century. Manmade monsters, vampires, soulless robots, Satanists, witches, sex killers, deformed maniacs, mad scientists, giant dinosaurs, ghosts and the Devil himself had all been subjects in the medium's first two decades. The genre had even produced enduring masterpieces such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Golem, Barrymore's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Haxan, Nosferatu, The Phantom of the Opera, Metropolis, Galeen's remake of The Student of Prague, The Unknown and West of Zanzibar.Steve Haberman, with Silent Screams, the first book in his horror tome Chronicles of Terror, offers a loving tribute to silent horror films, works which would form a strong foundation for the filmic terrors yet to come.

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